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Topical Budget 247-1: Solemn Public Procession (1916)
 

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Title: "SOLEMN PUBLIC PROCESSION North London catholics take part in a procession through the streets of Holloway". Procession of young boys in white frilled shirts and dark breeches, choir boys and men, and clergy. Choir men carrying a figure of the Virgin Mary under an arch of flowers followed by children carrying flowers and banners. Choir boys carrying figures of the Mother and Child. Man carrying the figure of Christ crucified followed by girls in white bearing a banner bearing figure of the Virgin Mary.